The Curtis Courier. (Curtis, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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OLDEST IN SERVICE
THE FAMOUS THIRD REGIMENT
GOES TO RHILLIRRINEB
AUGUST 6.
QRGkMZATION OATES TO 1784
Old Service en the Northwestern
Frontier Until 1800— Wee In the
War of 1812—General Anthony
Wayne and Zachary Taylor.
■pokaae. Waeh., July 19—Highly
distinguished in action and oldest In
nervier In the United States array «s
“the Fighting Third" regiment Infant-
ry. ordei .-d to the Philippines for duty
at Turaug. Eight companies of the
First end Third batallona. stationed
at Fort George Wright, three miles
west of Spokane, Lieutenant Colonel
I^a Febiger, commandant, and four
companies under Colonel T. C. Wood
bury at the regimental post. Fort Law
ton, will embark on the U. 8 trans-
port Buford, sailing for the Islands on
August 5.
The regiment participated In many
Important campaigns and upraising*,
beginning with tho protection of the
western frontiers more than a century
ago, serving with distinction In the
war with the Seminole Indians und In
the Mexican and Civil want, taking a
prominent part In the first Bull Hun
campaign. It took part in the opening
of territories in tho south west nn<l
northwest, suppressed Indian uprisings
and railroad riots tn various parts of
the United States, assisted in putting
down the guerrilla warfare on the
8outh Atlantic and Pacific islands and
did duty tn Alaska, whence It came to
the state of Washington, three years
ago, after the longest and hardest
march In the army’B history.
The history of the regiment, probab-
ly the most dramatic In American
army annals, Includes many epoch-
making events, in which are associat-
ed the names of men, Including An-
thony Wayne, Zachary Taylor and
others, who were famous in their time
and are remembered by present gen-
erations because of what they accom-
plished In the early days in the repub-
was discharged In 1802 and remained
out of service until reorganisation In
1808, with Colonel Pasteur aa Its (lrat
colonel He was succeeded In 1810 by
Colonel William Dent Beall, whose de-
scendants In tba army had much to do
with the opening of the Inland Kiu-
pire, as the Spokane country ta now
known.
During the war of 1812 the regiment
served in the south, principally against
Indians, and part of It was with Gen-
eral Jackson at the taking of Pena*
cola. Fla., In 1814.
In the reorganisation of the army
in 1815 the Third regiment was con
aolidated with the Second, Seventh
and Forty-fourth to form the First
regiment of Infantry, and the new
Third was reorganized by the consol*
dallon of the First, Seventeenth, Nine-
teenth, Twenty-fourth. Twenty-eighth
ind Thirty-ninth regiments.
Colonel John Miller of the Seven
ieenth was retained aa colonel of the
third regiment and Major Charles K
Gardner, author of the designation oi
companies by the first letters of the
alphabet, became major of the regi-
ment. He then succeeded the follow-
ing year by Mujor Zachary Taylor,
afterward president of the United
States.
The regiment was moved from the
Lake region In 1S26, going to Mis-
souri under its new colonel, Henry
Leavenworth, after whom the city and
fort in Kansas are named, and con-
structed a new post ut St. Louis, the
LEECHES COME IN FREE!
CURIOUS ARTICLES ENTERING
THE FOREIGN COMMERCE
OF UNITEO STATES.
DIVI-DIVI, CHILE. MIX VOMICA
average Individual unacquainted with
thia particular trade. The Bureau of
Statistics' figures show that the im-
portation of uux vomica amounted, in |
round numbers, in 1908 to 3 million
pounds, valued at 54 thousand dollars,
while the quantity imported in the de-
cade ending with 1908 amounted <o
about 25 million pounds, valued at ov>-r
400 thousand dollars. This article
comes in in the form of large round
seeds of a tree grown chiefly In south-
ern Asia, and Is used in the manufact
.ure of strychnine and certain tinctures
Fifteen Thousand Rounda of Dragon’s |auj tonics prescribed as medicines,
Blood, and Eighty Thousand Dollars |.)nd rt>rtain tinctures and tonics pro-
Worth of Musk—Palladium as Used I bribed as medicines, and eiuce it does
by Dentists—Th* World Ransacked. nol compote w ith any product of the
United States enters free of duty.
Musk importations in 1908 amounted
Recent tariff discussions which in-ho over 80 thousand dollars. The musk
elude the rates of duty on articles al- of commerce Is a secretion of a special
„ . ... ■ I aland of the musk deer, and comes
most unknown by name to the general I * . „
’ I chiefly from China. Tonkin, and other
public have Illustrated the breadth of|orlenUl countries, being thus exported
scope ol the commerce ot the United ^ ^ ^ CMe> the Klaml a8 cut (rum
Slates The fact that the world 1*1 e -tauKhtered ant„»a|. and when iin
ransacked for articles to contribute to | |n tW> form u d,.8Crll>ed a>
ihe wants of the American public. audj.>inusk cruU(, lB ,he naturttl po
that the American producers und man-
ANOTHER C0N6RESS
IT WILL FOLLOW THE WORK OUT-
LINED BY THE ROOSEVELT
CONFERENCE.
EVERY CITY IS CONCERNED
Irrigation. Dry Farming. Forestry,
Mining. Transportation, Good Roadfc
Pure Food, Public Morals nnN
Health and Relations Of Capital **
Labor.
'musk, crude, In tbe natural pods,"
that the American producers und man-1 ^ wh#n Bering tn tuu lorm U free
utacturer* in turn supply to all RAltnl
| of duty.
"Palladium."
U also an article of
of the world articles which are In
many Instances not considered by the |conimorco> though In extremely small
general public as entering lute-riration-1ollantjtt**a. since the quantity of pallud-
al trade. Is sharply pointed out
quantities, since the quantity of pallad-
al trade. Is sharply poluted out *»y I lum imported tn 1908 was but three
th. *e discussions and the Inquiries one_hundredthB of i pound. This small
which grow out of them quantity, three one-hundredths of 1
Birds Imported In 1908 amounted »°| Bd> wa8( however, valued at 121 a
3*)o thousand dollars lu value, and | pOUDd| therefore being worth approxl
The first national conservation cow
gress of the United States will be held
in the auditorium of the Alaska-Yukon*
Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washing-
ton, August 20. 27. 28. 1909. Arrange-
ments for the congress w>e being per-
fected by the Washington Conserve
lion association, an organlxatlou com-
prising several hundred prominent
men of the State.
The conservation congresa promieen
to be the largest and most represents
tlve gathering of active conservation-
ists since the conference of govern-
ors at the White House. Washington,
when former President Theodor*
Roosevelt launched the campaign tor
ion >« >\uu»4tn uir uvw juu iiiuuiMii uuiun m »»» ^ therefore being worth approxl- «ou»e»>n >■«■■« ■■■ « —- ...... —
strutted a new post ut St. Louis, the whlle they are not specifically enum-l j-00 ln ot)ier years the quan- a more systematic and universal con-
present Jefferson barrack*. Four crated a* to varieties, It Is presumed t(Ue8 ,mported biive bcen much larger, servatiou of the resources of our coun-
amounting In idt)5 to over 10 thousand I try.
I/, v.>vu<- ■ • - — — - fi ntru ci ci xv# <ni ivv.vb, • - r«-------- —
companies under Colonel Leavenworth that this group Is lurgely composed of
ascended the Missouri river in 1827 to canaries and parrots,
select a site for a new post, which re- Leeches are also enumerated by the
suited ln the present Fort Leaven- nUreau oi Statistics under Its general
worth. head of animals Imported, tbe total
For a number of years the regiment value of the imports of this species in
served in the southwest along the I jggj having been 85.341. tn 1907 $6,-
borders of what is now the state of Lgg, in 1900 $4,494, in 1985 $3,862, In
Texas, and during that time the com- |y04 13,589, |u 1903 $3,240, and ln 1902
panies were almost continuously onL2,412—the commerce In leeches be-
the march, doing service of various jDg thus of a growiug character. The
kinds, including the building of mill- lotal value of the leeches imported In-
tary roads through the wilderness and to tbe United States in the decade end-
opening rivers for navigation, with oc- inR wtth 1908 Is about $40,000. Leeches,
cnslonal expeditions ugainst the In- 14 niny he added, are Imported free of
dians and other work incidental to the duty, Snails were at one time enum-
frontier of that period. erated as an article of importation.
Colonel Leavenworth died ln 1831 t}ie records from 1894 to 1898 showing
while on an expedition Into what is s,ian8 imported to the extent of about
now the state of Oklahoma. lie was $.’,,000; but the snail trade so
succeeded by Colonel James Many, dwindled, showing only $24 of Im-
who. though unqualified by age and port8 in 1898, that the Bureau discon-
physteal disability for active service, tinued its statements of this article,
held the posilion until his death in “Dlvi-divl" as an article of Imports
1852, on which Colonel Thomas Stani tion has been the subject of many Jests
m 1 .. .1 .. .1 ITn nnvn* Lti null OfliT I • . i 1 J.aalnn 4Vin Inriff #$ I (3-
dollars in value and In 1904 to morel The conservation congress has th*
than 16 thousand dollars In value. This official indorsement of the Stale leg-
rare metal, associated with platinum, islaturo. Slate conservation commit
while found In Its native state in small slon. governors and conservation con*
quantities in Germany and Brazil, Is missions of other State*, the Seattie
chiefly supplied from the working over Chamber of Commerce and the Jo nt
of platlniferous residues of various committee between States and nation,
mints, and Is used In the manufacture Invitations have been extended to
of astronomical Instruments, and by President William H. Taft and mem-
dentists, when alloyed with sliver, as l>ert* of his cabinet, governors of
a substitute for gold.
AUTOS IN BERLIN.
States, members of the various Stat*
conservation commissions, president*
of colleges and other Institutions of
learning, editors of prominent new*-
_ . . , .. , | papers and magazines, church dlgnita-
Th.r. I. —I P~t.cu.h t. LU. l.rM tnd to ,nd rf
th. G.fmao c,ptt,l. comm,„„| orgonliotloo, la U,. lead-
Washington. D. Ilacl- 0, ,h. natloo.
cr. . manufacturer uf Berlin. who ha. ,ho„ in.ltml ban
hcea visiting la Wo.Wn.Wn I. Jo- anaonneed Ihelr loin,
dlgnaat over U» wo, *re L„ „f ,«ending .he rongre,,.
allowed ta travel the .treeu ot Wash- „How ,htlj |b> co„omuon ou,
ington. .... natural resources be conducted so that
Why." said Mr. Iluelscr. If ™y\
The organization dates back to 1784,
when, because the finances of tho na-
tion were exhausted. Congress dis-
banded ail that remained of the Con-
tinental army, save one battery of 80
men at West Point, as guard for the
public stores. Several months after-
ward Congress resolved that It was
necessary to raise a body of 700 troops
by states, composed of Infantry and
artillery, to protect the northwestern
frontiers. The following year the or-
ganization was defined and designated
as a national body.
Among the many experiments with
the army that then rapidly succeeded
each other was a plan for merging the
Infantry, cavalry and artillery into a
single body under the designation of
the Legion of the United States, the
anolent Roman legion being the root
of the Idea. The scheme seems to
have originated with Baron von Steub-
en, who “upon review of all the mill-
try of Europe" frankly stated that*
“the legion alone has not been adopted
by any.” yet he ventured to recom-
mend It for reasons of his own. The
legion was organized and divided into
lour sub-legions, corresponding to regi-
ments.
The Third regiment, organized under
the act of 3, 1792, as the infant
ry part of the Third sub-legion, came
Into being at Pittsburg, headquarters
of the Legion of the United States,
September 4,1792, under direct charge
of Major General Anthony Wayne,
commander-in-chief. A week later It
was given Its marks of “yellow bind-
ings to the caps, yellow plumes and
black hair,” which colors are today
borne in the regimental insignia. The
regiment accompanied General Wayne
on niB successful campaign against the
Indians in 1784.
In the reorganization of the army
ln 1796, the infantry of the Third sub-
legion became the Third regiment of
infantry, with Lieutenant Colonel Hen-
ry Gaither, formerly lieutenant colonel
and commander of the Third Bub-leg-
lon and who had served with distinc-
tion as jAptaln in the Revolutionary
army, as its first commandant The
second majors were Jonathan Cass
and William Kersey. Zebulon Pike
of Pike's Peak fame, beaded the list
of captains.
1852, on which Colonel Thomas Stani tion has been the subject of many Jests "Why. saio air. n . business of tbe present day shall r»
ford succeeded. He never Joined, and by the humorists during the tariff dis- oue dared to run a ear n e cejvo (be greatest proper benefits?" 1*
on his death three years later he was cug8ion8 „f Congress, though in fact i 8treets 1q ** c“ni® *aV,\lc\nCbUJtlie question presented by the Wash-
followed by Colonel Benjamin L. E. lt jg an article of no Inconsiderable tomary in using on, « buuffeur lnF‘on Conservation association, and
Bonneville, whose adventures were importance in the tanning industry, the would be taken ioiu every c au u I ^ ^g^g, practical, executive
made famous by Washington Irving. product of a leguminous tree in the and car- j and commercial men will be expectad
He retained the command until 1861 west Indies and South America, enter- In Ber *“• c°n n“e F ? J to answer in a manner satisfactory to
when he retired. ing in the form of a pod, and amount- "the tw® “' athe allied Interests of th* people.
The regiment was employed during lng in quantity ln 1908 to 134 thous- hanging brakes, isacn nr ^ dlgCU8aionB win mdud* th* anb-
the part of 1836 ln watching the revolu- and pounds, valued at between 2 and capable of bringing a car runn “ j«cta of Irrigation, dry farming, forest-
tion in the Mexican province of Texas 3 thousand dollars. The value of the mlle* an hour t0 a “en * * ry, mining, transportation, good roada.
with the idea of extending aid. Hap- tmports of the last decade has ag- feet» and lhG mac 1111,1 ma »L» P«r* food, public morals and health,
plly, the success of the Texans at the gregated about $85,000. Divi-dlvi, ble ot being urn® ,n *'* Lnd the Relation of capital to labor la
battle of San Jacinto obviated any which does not compete with other wide. It must emit no e ' the work of modern conservation,
further action. grades of material used in tanning, and the exhaust mus no e 0 <ri,e program Includes address**
ln 1840 the entire regiment proceed- whtch j* required in the development aP°n the atrect> lt mus m“ e no 11 ' from the best thinking men of th*
ed by transport to Fort Brook, Tampa OI certain lines of this industry, is im- necessary noise and must e mec ian ^ Among those named as probabl*
Bay. Florida, where for the next two ported free of duty. Ically safe. speakers are President Taft. Hon. R.
and a half years it bore Its full share Rose leaves are also Imported free “The lamps must be o g I Ballinger, secretary of the Interior;
of the hardships and arduous duties o{ duty when brought In in a crude a“d throw a 1:'Bht ee °n a ^ Hon. James Wilson, secretary of agrb
incident to the war with the Seminole 8late. the value of the imports of 1908 night. A plate, with t e name * cujture; Ho„ Q|ff0rd Pinchot, chief
Indians. Achievements are to Its being but $105, ln 1907 $2,137, and 1n | machine, where made, er J" Loretter; Mr> P H. Newen. chief of th#
credit during the Mexican war and the 4906 $5,879, the value of rose leaves I horsepower and we g , u reclamation service; Dr. W. J. McGee,
war of the rebellion. imported in the decade ending wlth4 B,8ht and 1 e mac 1 e secretary of the White House confer
There is no army in the world l908 amounting to over $20,000. pear upon the B‘reet T" u ence of governors; J. E. Ransdell.
whose duties have been or are so man- The extension of the chewing-gum ber. No one under u» * president National Rivers and Harbor*
Hold and varied as ours." said Colonel industry and the use of that product permitted to run an aui . Congress; Dr. Charles W. Eliot o*
Febiger. "and iue experiences of the Lraong the people of the United 8tates cens« ls subject to rcca Harvard college; Prof. Irving Fisher
Third apply to all the rest only that |a illustrated by tbe fact that the im- ~ ’ Qf Yale- John Mitchell, vice president
as the oldest organization lt has had portation of “chicle" In 1908, chiefly A young Bostonian went to Texas and Amer,CBn FederaUon of Labor; Seth
more of them. The Third has borne for use ,n the manufacture of chewing turned eowboy. Ho rapidly caught ‘he preg)(,ent National Civic Federw-
upon Its rolls many prominent and his- gum( amounted to more than 4 mil- spirit of the eountry and aa rap'dly 1^' Jame4 A Emory( president Ne-
------------ -—a «r lla Hon pounds. This article, “chicle," is shook off the outward semblance of tea-1,^, Manufactureri- association;
obtained In southern Mexico from the der-footed Eastern habtt. Hough bearded, .JaineB } Hj„ the greate8t railroad
trunks of the sapodilla plum tree, and leather elad, sombrero aa w.de as the I b}imcT ^ many otherB.
the importation of this gum during the eat, forty-two calbro Colts on ins hips ^ Washington Conservation aaso-
last decade has amounted to about 30 be was as wild as the w ildest, ^ct wit " I c|at|on hag undertaken something new
million poundB, or over 13 thousand in his bosom still burne- t e ame 0 ln the history ot cenventlons. It haa
tons, valued at over 8 million dollars. Boston culture and refinement. One day, ^ ^ peraona, ,nvttatlon8 t0 every
"Dragon’s blood" Imported, amount- he was riding with a stranger across ie promlnent commercial organization la
lng on the face ot the returns to 15 prairie. Turning his head suddenly (h« K u>|ted gtal0B agklng for th0 ^
thousand pounds in 1908 and to over was slightly ahead) he saw b.a companion q( gt ,eMt tWQ repre3enU.
200 thousand pounds ln the last de- make a suspicious motion toward lus Uvea from each bQdy u has Jnvlte)1
cade, ls of course not In fact dragon s hip-pocket. Without hesitation he ittm I presl(Jent Qf the Unlted statea>
blood at all. but a mere name for a bis revolver and shot him 1 ho stranger 1^, o( the cabinet, senators and
deep reddish resinous subsUnce ob- dropped like • log. The co*boj an^ congre8smen t0 assemble In Seattle
tained from a variety of trees In the mounted and looked at the body of h«l ^ ^ ^ ls8ue8 Qf
Orient, especially the east coast of I victim. W0"',!r. .C. "a" ri,a. the day—the various branches of con-
Sumatra, and used as an ingredient in ing to 8ll00t mc °I*°.1 ° U,*C ,>• servatiou lu relation to the food, cloth-
varnishes, stains and dentifrices. The I see. ur”,D^ '* °VCr’ . i;n ing. fuel and common necessities of
value of the importation of 1908 was covered a flask of wh'skcy protrudinU,^ R ^ requested the attendl
about 5 thousand dollars, and during from the pocket. I oor fellow! said
the decade about 60 thousand dollars he, in a tone of regret; “I’ve made a
Infant's foods also form a consider- mistake. I’ve killed an innocent man and
able item of Importation, 41 thousand a gentleman at that. He wasn’t going
dollars’ worth in 1908. and during the to shoot mo; he was
decade have amounted to nearly a to invite me to have a drink. Well, he
quarter of a million dollars, on which sighed, drawiug his sleeve across his
the duty collected amounted to nearly mouth, “the last wishes of the deceased
50 thousand dollars. |respected.”
"Nux vomica" forms a more Import- _
ant feature of the Important trade! New York City will have a new fire
torical names, and the record
deeds is one to inspire the present
members to emulate our predecessors
and keep up the reputation as well
earned.”
The vacated posts in Washington
will be garrisoned by four companies
ef the First infantry of Vancouver Bar-
racks. Wash., until the arrival of th#
Twenty-fifth Infantry, (colored), ln
command of Colonel Ralph W. Hoyt,
now military governor of the province
of Moro. who will be stationed at Fort
Lawton witn Lieutenant Colonel Aber-
crombie, a pioneer Alaskan, ln com-
mand of the post near Spokane. The
incoming soldiers, who have served at
Parang. Island of Mindana, since 1907,
will sail September 15, arriving some
time in October.
No Scaling For Him.
Telling wonderful stories of his travels
and adventures, Mr. Suddenricb had been
boring a few ebance aequaintanrea in
the amoking room of the Atlantic lin-
“I suppose you have sealed the Mat-
terhorn yawning. “
‘I should say not! “ replied the weal-
“I should say not! " .
mi, , thy man, indignantly; “whenever I go
The regiment was stationed along on a fishing trip, I always take a chef
the northwestern frontier until 1800, along 1“
am leaiure 01 ---- -----• :
than would probably be realized by the alarm system coating $100,000.
Ufo. It has requested the attendance
of leading editors, professors, preach-
ers and commercial men to assauible
and take definite aetton In matter*
pertaining to the future welfare of all
the people.
Experiments are being made with aer-
ial torpedoes in Germany. The torpedoes
in Germany. The torpedoes are driven by
electric motors and it is hoped to control
them by wireless.
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